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The Jasmine-tea system is a main source of livelihood support to the local community as it involves diversified agriculture provisions. In this whole process production, mushrooms, jasmine tea, milk and meat are produced. In addition, farming in the tea plantations begins in February, producing tea leaves and other food.Fuzhou is the most important city in producing jasmine tea in China, where jasmine and tea industries are a major source of...

Valle Salado is located in the town of Salinas de Añana (Alava, Basque Country), approximately 30 km from the capital city, in northern Spain. It is crossed by two small rivers which join at the centre of the valley and sits on a giant salt bubble from a sea that disappeared millions of years ago. Thanks to the existence of a geological phenomenon called Diapir and to the injection of fresh...

احتفلت منظمة الأغذية والزراعة للأمم المتحدة (المنظمة) اليوم باليوم الدولي الأول للأمم المتحدة لشجرة الأركان من خلال المشاركة في حدث افتراضي رفيع المستوى نُظم في المغرب، أماط اللثام عن مدى أهمية شجرة الأركان في الحفاظ على التنوع البيولوجي وتوفير سبل لكسب العيش. وصرّحت السيدة Maria Helena Semedo، نائب المدير العام للمنظمة، قائلة إن هذا الحدث يشكّل "فرصة سانحة" للمغرب وللمناطق الجافة في أفريقيا لتسليط الضوء على مدى أهمية شجرة الأركان.

“The smell of toasted argan kernels takes me back to my childhood, when at the end of the week I would sit by my grandmother and we would prepare the oil for the following week,” recalls Hafida El Hantati, vice-president of Ajddigue, a cooperative of argan-oil-producing women located close to Essaouira, Morocco. Her experience is not unique: for many people here, argan is like a childhood friend who stays with them...